Breakin' All the Rules (2004)
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 86
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 59
This formulaic screwball comedy is weighed down by a contrived, overly complicated plot.
Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 19
This formulaic screwball comedy is weighed down by a contrived, overly complicated plot.
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A man who writes the book on ending a romance runs into rough sledding while starting a new one in this comedy. Quincy (Jamie Foxx) is a magazine editor whose life takes an unexpected turn for the worse when his fiancée, Helen (Bianca Lawson), decides to give him some interesting news at their engagement party -- she's breaking up with him. A few days later, Quincy's boss, Phillip (Peter MacNicol), gives him the task of cutting manpower in his department by 15 percent; too emotionally beaten to
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Jamie Foxx
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Gabrielle Union
Callas Nicky -
Morris Chestnut
Evan Fields -
Peter MacNicol
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Jennifer Esposito
Rita Monroe -
Bianca Lawson
Helen Sharp -
Jill Ritchie
Amy -
Heather Headley
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Gerald Emerick
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All Critics (93) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (59) | DVD (15)
... this is basically just a sitcom.
Top CriticNo movie this stupid should need a plot synopsis this complicated.
A movie that sags and drags under the weight of poor pacing, execrable writing and largely unlikable characters, including a leading man viewers can never really warm up to.
A cleverly concocted hybrid of conventional romantic comedy and mistaken-identity farce.
If the movie were 10 minutes longer, the mix-ups might grind viewers down, but director Daniel Taplitz knows how to juggle the subplots he's given.
In many ways a throwback to the era of Doris Day and Jack Lemmon movies.
Not much worth seeing in this mess of a movie.
...may be fluff, but it is patient, character-driven fluff.
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Digresses into that hazy zone where we're not sure if we're watching overwrought drama or a joke that just isn't funny.
it's all very silly and highly unbelievable, but the five main leads are all having a good time.
With a little more polish, Daniel Taplitz's quick-witted romantic comedy might have lived happily ever after.
A good cast tries to rescue a bad script.
Breakin' All the Rules doesn't break any rules at all. It's just a by-the-numbers romantic comedy.
...the comedy never tried to stretch beyond being common.
Everybody involved in Breakin' All the Rules -- especially the audience -- deserves something more than this tedious excuse for a movie.
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